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Press Release Sponsorship Speech of Sen. Leila M. De Lima for The Foundling Recognition and Protection Act Good afternoon, dear colleagues. I speak to you today, as I always have in this chamber, in behalf of those who can t speak for themselves. When one of our colleagues, Sen. Grace Poe, ran for President on 2016, she shined a light on a class of citizens which would otherwise be invisible in the eyes of the law: the foundlings. This bill defines a foundling as a deserted or abandoned child or infant with unknown facts of birth and parentage. For too long, we have ignored fulfilling our mandate in enacting legislation to address the needs of the foundlings in our country. As early as the 1934 Constitutional Convention, a discussion on the status of foundlings were made by the delegates. Delegate and Constitution Law author Jose Aruego said that the Convention believed that the cases, being too few to warrant the inclusion of a provision in the Constituti ....
news Time for Hongkongers eligible for BN(O) visa scheme to choose where their loyalties lie Illustration: Stephen Case With yet another coronavirus lockdown in Britain, one cannot stretch one s legs easily other than in the supermarket. A brief chat I had with a butcher in a Surrey supermarket in September gave me much food for thought, as I had settled in Britain as a British National (Overseas) emigre a month earlier. The conversation started innocuously - where are you from? As soon as she said she was from China, and I Hong Kong, she asked me a question in Mandarin that had contributed to years of discontent and one year of social unrest in Hong Kong that culminated in Beijing s imposition of a national security law for the city on June 30 - is Hong Kong not part of China? ....